Charles Henry Davis

Charles Henry Davis (16 January 1807-18 February 1877) was a US Navy Rear Admiral during the American Civil War.

Biography
Charles Henry Davis was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1807, and he joined the US Navy in 1823 as a midshipman. He served in the Pacific before mediating the capitulation of the filibuster William Walker in Nicaragua in 1857. During the American Civil War, he served on the Mississippi River, sinking or capturing seven of the eight Confederate ships at the First Battle of Memphis in 1862. He later fought at the Siege of Vicksburg in 1863, and he was promoted to Rear Admiral that same year. From 1867 to 1869, he commanded the South Atlantic Squadron, and he died in Washington DC in 1877.